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· The following version of this story was used to create this guide: Foer, Jonathan Safran. "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." The New Yorker, 2002. Print.

· The story begins with the speaker describing the use of the "silence mark,” (◻) a form of punctuation which “signifies absence of language” in conversation.

· The speaker says that for each page in his family’s story one silence mark exists.

· The silence mark exists most often when the speaker talks with his grandmother about “her life in Europe during the war” (1).

· It exists as well when in conversations with his father about his family’s history of heart disease.

· The speaker states that there have been 41 heart attacks in his family “and counting” (1).

· The speaker uses a phone conversation he and his father had while he was in college as an example of their use of the silence mark...

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